Re: Re: Vista

"Paul Knudsen" <pknudsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Judson McClendon wrote:
I haven't used Vista yet. My son just bought a new high performance
Dell computer with Vista. He says it seems really slow and sluggish.
Is that a common experience with Vista?

Not on my Inspiron, and that's by no means a top-end machine. I did
make sure to get 4GB of memory. How much did your son get?

4GB, a top end video card, and the fastest Intel Core 2 Duo CPU on the
planet (for the moment). It has a single hard drive, which may account
for some of the problem; his older PC has dual striped SATAs on a
system board hardware RAID controller.

As you probably know, an n-drive striped RAID can transfer data almost
"n times" faster than the same type single drive. My current PC has
two RAID arrays, each has two striped drives. The boot RAID is two
10,000 RPM SATAs. I would like my next PC to have one 4x striped RAID.
The performance boost should be impressive, since most delays on a PC
are from disk IO bottleneck, especially on laptops. I wonder why so
many people buy notebooks with super fast CPUs and 5400 RPM drives?
The vast majority of applications are not CPU intensive, and a slower
(less expensive) CPU and 7200 RPM drive would perform much better. My
2004 vintage 2.4 GHz P4 ThinkPad "came alive" when I replaced its
factory 5400 RPM drive with a 7200 RPM drive. I couldn't get a 7200
RPM drive from the factory in 2004.
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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